Another Wireless Issue

I removed the bluetooth software as well as the HP Wireless Assist. Because I have removed those before without issue, and are not needed. After doing so, i lost connection.

Can't connect at all, so I reinstalled those 2 things. But I still can't connect, I see my network, along with others, but its like it doesn't even try to connect. I am starting to really hate wireless internet. I tryed repairing and all the normal tricks.

I have gone through all the drivers, settings, applications, it should be working. Ideas? Hopefully this is one of those things where I post the question and i fix it, but if not, please help!

im guessing this is with xp sp3 which should have all the updated wpa2 patched in it, have you tried using the wired connection to get all the updates from hp site? maybe there is something there that will aid you

So I installed all possible programs and drivers, downloaded latest and tried those.

I have reformatted and still no luck.

So I just went and installed Windows 7 Ultimate RTM on it, and it still won't connect to any wireless network. So clearly it's not a driver issue, or program issue because it can detect networks. How can I test to see if the hardware is broken (even though I had it working originally for about an hour).

See when I first booted it up (had xp) it did it's first fun, and I was doing all the things I needed, for about an hour or 2, once I removed 2 applications like I stated in the original post, it stopped working, but as I stated with reformatted and reinstalling all drivers and such, clearly that was not the cause.

I set it from mac filtering, to 100% open. I have had it set so that it uses the filter of mac addresses only, except that every other laptop that came in the house could use it anyways. For some reason this one needed to be added, very weird.